Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1919 — NO EXCUSE FOR UNEMPLOYED; LOAFERS ARE TOO NUMEROUS. [ARTICLE]

NO EXCUSE FOR UNEMPLOYED; LOAFERS ARE TOO NUMEROUS.

There is absolutely no excuse in Indiana for unemployed labor. jVnd we seriously doubt whether there is in any other state. When, therefore, men come about with whines that they are unable to find work we may put them down as lazy pretenders and conscienceless drones. In Indianatoday there is a lamentable scarcity of farm labor which promises to hamper production very seriously and this, too, despite the fact that farmers are offering higher wages than 'ever before. The truth is that at the present high cost of living a man who obtains his board and room on a farm and takes the offered wage there is being better paid than in almost any other line of service. , But farm work is real work and only the exceptional man wants to take it. The curse of this country today is the all V>° general desire to receive high pay and render little or nothing in return. It is a curse, too, which augurs ill for the future, for: we know right well what the end will be. That which is produced, whether by farm or factory, represents work and when work is stopped or curtailed, production is stopped or curtailed. As a consequence prices advance and living conditions are made enormous. —Francesville Tribune.